To give people a better understanding of how low the Wii is dipping I have this graph of 2007 vs 2008 Japan sales

As you can see, the Wii was at ~30k on 8/24, and in 3 weeks (week ending 9/14), it could easily be at or below 20k.

I am going to agree with mrstickball.

If there are no supply issues, then the price drop plus IU could put the 360 past the Wii for one week.

Possible but not probable.

Dallinor -

The Xbox 360 sold 24,000+ units the week Tales of Vesperia launched. It effectively sold out of units available in most parts of the country. So there is a precedent that the Xbox 360 can move hardware if the right game comes out.

And FYI: 5 Top weeks in Japan for the X360

why not.there will be a X360>Wii soner or later for the first time ever

Wow, u r really hoping that ToV is THAT important that it will cause xbox 360 HW sales to sky rocket and pass the Wii. The 360 with the launch of ToV sold 25k great numbers, it still didn't pass the Wii, and I know that it sold out so if it wasn't supply constrained, it may have out sold the Wii. Although that MAY have been true, that was on launch, which is like 4 weeks (I think) before the said date (9/11). I'm pretty sure that those who wanted to play it did, and those that were some wat interested in it, have lost interest. I doubt that the 360 will pass PS3, let alone the Wii.

Edit: Didn't read that IU was launching, sorry about that. Anyways, I doubt that an unreleased IP will do something that a known and loved franchise like the Tales series was not capable of doing.

There is a decent chance, but I do still think it is unlikely

OMG! I actually agree with you

It's been proven in Japan that games sell the console, not the price. PS3 has had 2 price drops while sales didn't increase at all!

So yeah, the 360 will see a boost and will probably outsell the PS3 because of Infinite Undiscovery. But it is a new IP and has received mediocre-okay reviews as of now, so the effect won't be as big as the effect ToV had.

Anything can happen, but I wouldn't count on it.

According to VGChartz

Number of times Wii under 30k this year: 1
Number of times 360 over 20K since Wii launch: 1

Only thing in favor of this hypothesis is that both happened very recently.

Thus, is this possible: YES. Is it probable: NO.
Is it worthy of discussion: YES.

Mike from Morgantown